Bryd gets ko'ed by a lhw with 7kos in 20 fights

Christ

He must have been terrible in there, to go from a solid chin at heavy to getting KTFO by a journeyman LHW. Weight draining/age I guess...

 

How did the fight play out?

 

Yes losing that much weight hurts, RJJ before moving up with have pitched shutouts against guys like Tarver and Johnson but the weight drain killed him.

 

Chris should hang em up, he was horrible tonight.

 

This was truly sad seeing Byrd like that. He looked so drained and his legs weren't there all night. He had a great career with all things considered and has absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. Enjoy retirement Chris.

 

Byrd was getting beat up all night.

 

Byrd played his usual game of trying to outsmart but he doesnt have enough physical ability left to do that =/.. Byrd went down in the first round and in the final round went down twice and injured his left shoulder when he went down maybe he dislocated it.. He was wobbled in about 3 or 4 rounds..

 

No, it had EVERYTHING to do, however, with Byrd being completely, totally, and utterly WASHED UP. Hopefully he has the sense to hang 'em up.

 

It was a good win for Shaun George, but for me I could only feel for Chris Byrd here. It was truly sad to see a good former Heavyweight Champ being battered for nine rounds.

In the first round Shaun George came out confidently and aggressively. he fired in jabs but the punch that did the damage all night was the right hand which he threw mostly from a side on stance. He floored Byrd and dominated the round, it looked like and early night was in store.

In the second George was more measured and less aggressive but continued catching Byrd with the right hand and easily won the round.

The Third was more of the same, however Byrd became more active in the fourth but continued to eat right hands.

In the fifth another round for George winning with basically just single right hand shots. I thought Byrd had possibly at best won a share of one round after the first 5 rounds were completed.

Byrd had his best round in the sixth and outlanded George possibly even winning it.

But the beating continued in the next round with George hitting Byrd with hard rights again. I think if George had of fought more aggressively throughout he could have ended it much earlier but as it was he finished it in round nine flooring Byrd twice.

Byrd really should now retire he has nothing to prove and is no longer capable of fighting at world class level anymore based on this showing.

 

I think he would have if not for his shoulder.

 

Too many hard fights, and I think his reflexed are too depleated, as well as the weight probably drained him much more than anyone expected. He should probably retire, after the hype over this big LH debut, then to look this bad......and before that, looking bad against Povetkin, and before that, against Wlad........

He threw about two meaningful combos, and that was about it, that I saw. He was mainly a punching bag in there. That delayed reaction in the shoulder fall was pretty dramatic as he backed up, then crumbled to the canvas. Kind of sad to see Byrd being thrashed like that.